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Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2025
Signed-off-by: Kayla Powell (AKA Kat) <[email protected]>

Author: kpowkitty

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+# Google Summer of Code 2025 @ FreeBSD
+Mentor: Warner Losh @bsdimp <[email protected]>  
+Student: Kayla (Kat) Powell @kpowkitty <[email protected]>
+---------------
+## ACPI Initialization in Loader with Lua Bindings
+Intel's Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) brought power management out of the BIOS
+and into the operating system. We can make it even more powerful by creating an interface
+to script it. Currently, the scripting language of choice in FreeBSD (rather than POSIX `sh`, `bash`, or `awk`) 
+is Lua. Therefore, this project aims to initialize a portion of ACPI in the FreeBSD bootloader, with respect
+to its storage, memory, and stdlib constraints, so we can enumerate and evaluate objects on the device trees to
+provide an interface to Lua.
+
+## Milestones
+[x] `OsdMemory.c` for `amd64` (`arm64` postponed)  
+[x] `AcpiInitializeSubsystem`  
+[x] `AcpiInitializeTables`  
+[x] `AcpiEnableSubsystem` in reduced hardware mode, with events enabled  
+[x] `AcpiLoadTables`  
+[x] `AcpiWalkNamespace`  
+[x] `AcpiEvaluateObject`  
+[x] ACPICA initialized in loader for `amd64`  
+[ ] Enumerate the ACPI Namespace into human-readable API layer  
+[ ] Lua API functionality for evaluating objects  
+[ ] Demonstration Lua scripts & man page/handbook update  
+
+**Future goals of this project include arm64 compat.**
+
+### For more information, please consult these resources:
+[ACPI Lua Bindings FreeBSD project wiki page](https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/ACPI%20Initialization%20in%20Loader%20With%20Lua%20Bindings)  
+[Write-up](https://kmpow.com/content/gsoc-writeup)
+
+---------------
+
+## Building
+This project requires an amd64 UEFI FreeBSD system.
+
+The current working version of this project is found on branch `acpi_init`.
+
+1. Clone the repo & change branches  
+```
+$ git clone [email protected]:kpowkitty/freebsd-src.git
+$ git checkout acpi_init
+```
+
+2. Build the necessary dependencies
+```
+$ cd stand
+$ make libsa
+$ make liblua
+$ cd efi
+$ make libefi
+```
+
+3. Build the loader (`-j max_jobs`, where `max_jobs` specifies the number of jobs that `make` can run when you call it)
+```
+$ cd loader
+$ make -j max_jobs
+```
+
+4. Install the `loader.efi` image
+```
+# make install
+# cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/path/to/your/loader.efi
+```
+
+5. Reboot
+```
+# shutdown -r now
+```
+
+At this point, when your system restarts, ACPI has gone through the initialization
+sequence in the loader. If using QEMU, one can redirect serial output to a file and
+see "Successful initialization of ACPI" message if built correctly.  
+The next leg of this project will be using this initialization of ACPI to walk the 
+namespace and enumerate its objects into an API layer for Lua.
+
+## System Recovery
+In general cases, to recover your system, you need to mount your drive 
+on a live iso and replace your drive's `loader.efi` with the live iso image's `loader.efi`.